[colug-432] Search Command History

[Scott McCarty]

That is exactly what I do too. I also increase the history log to 500000 so that I don't loose history. It might have been crazy when we had 2MB disks, but now it's very low cost to store ALL history.

Best Regards
Scott M

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Floehr" <eric at intellovations.com>
> To: "Central OH Linux User Group - 432xx" <colug-432 at colug.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 8:59:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [colug-432] Search Command History
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> Is there something I’m missing that will cause this to get written
> more immediately than on a proper logout? I’ve run into several
> situations where I really needed to see that history to know what
> someone else was doing, or where I left off, or what that complex
> sed command was - but I’m out of luck.
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> Yes, put this in your .bashrc:
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> PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:-:} ; history -a; history -n"
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> At every prompt it will append to the history file commands run since
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> The second, history -n, is optional... it will reread the history
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> Note that multiple shells will have their history intermingled, so
> you do run into a few problems up-arrowing and not always seeing a
> coherent past. I've removed history -n for that reason on my shells.
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> Also, you might find histappend needs set (put this also in your
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> shopt -s histappend
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> -Eric
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